The British Press is big on righteous indignation. Its wallows in selective grief whenever Russia is accused of dirty dancing. It uses single issues reportage selectively, to obfuscate its modus operandi. The subject of the unpleasant Salisbury Skripal poisoning attack on two people was written up as though it was the evil to end all evils…far outweighing the attention poor suffering Yemen might deserve, for instance.

It comes as no surprise that the Anglo Zionist media, ablaze with recriminations of the most self-righteous sort, spit out venom with unabashed hypocrisy whenever the Russian Bear is accused of a crime. The entire Skripal episode rests only on assertions. Britain, as a node in the Washington Consensus playbook, likes to issue statements that seem to come directly from the mouth of a prim elocution-teacher articulating words to justify the prioritization of perspectives that afford the Anglo-Zionist sphere a green card. But strangely, their selective grief becomes ever more retrograde.

And it might be that they are unaware that they have been downgraded to the rank of cheerleaders, whose function it is to run into the arena waving plumes. In the ‘great game’ presently underway on the global pitch, where the dollar and the yuan are the symbols that adorn the goal post of either contestant, at either end of the playing field there are basically two combatants.

The neo-conservative class, cosseted in Anglo-Zionist priorities were quick to publish the following statement in the Independent Newspaper; US, France, Canada and Germany… pledge to join Theresa May’s Campaign Against Russian GRU Spy Agency…alleging that the whole operation was approved by Vladmir Putin’s government.

But something didn’t gel, this was a rerun to something we had seen before. It all came across as a reboot of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ …the same alliance who marched onto the world stage as liberators wishing to save Iraq from itself, but ended up destroying it, were back. Somebody had dusted off the old George Bush, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger lies. The Brits, readying for another sortie, rushed out onto the ‘all the world is a stage’ hoping to kick another goal for Empire.

Stranger than strange is the fact that the liberal classes in the West fail to perceive contiguities that connect them to the horrendous slaughter of thousands of Yemen’s children, or to their acceptance of Israel’s inhuman occupation of Palestine, which alternates between subjecting the occupied people to siege warfare, or to a regatta like event, where the power of the smug occupying force is celebrated in ways the beggar belief. Shooting fish in a barrel comes to mind. Does this happen because “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”?

If the ‘good folk’ of Western enlightenment are undisturbed by the events that recently occurred in Gaza, then they are obviously at one with the majority of Israelis who relish turkey-shoots that slaughter hundreds of caged and unarmed civilians for the sport of it, simply because Israelis are in possession of an ideology that induces identity euphoria in them. Is it because they believe that God or Doctor Strangelove made them the chosen people?

Even more strange is the fact that humans continue to justify lies and subterfuge if their interests are challenged. The US, for example…the Godfather supporting Israel’s gauche actions…remains utterly committed to blocking change everywhere, so that it can keep the world dependent on the American dollar…and the American consumer as well…even at the cost of high trade deficits at home while engaging in trade wars if need be. Collusion between America and Israel is overseen by AIPAC…the new Founding Fathers of The Republic…who live in Washington and Tel Aviv, and whose purpose is to keep the banking system safe from miscegenation. Hence the drip feed prioritisation of single-issue texts and sub-texts that explain Western media and its disappearing values.

The methods used by the unipolar Anglo-Zionist Empire are brutally simple; use military muscle and propaganda to tabulate the rules of the agenda. The most expedient way to do so is to control the flow of information. The space between imputation and tabulation is where colonization is born.

America has become a culture that needs to spend an unbelievable amount of money on security to retain power, both domestically and abroad, so that it can continue to impede systems that might interfere in its quest for global economic hegemony. Its foremost need is to create a system of privately-run forces like Wall Street, The Pentagon, the Intelligence Agencies, the Media, Academia and every other institution that walls-in the ‘the people’s’ voice, so that Corporatism can remain the arbiter in matters of unity.

It is currently referred to as the Deep State. It could also be referred to as the place where fifth-columnists go to pull the leavers that release the crap that spews out from the entails of the chewing-gum single-issue personification of entitlement culture that has overtaken America. It freely proffers single-issues of many stripes to keep existential angst on the boil, while sequestering the sole right to interpret the meaning of unity.

Ever since Corporate American Democracy Inc. emerged as the marketable brand par excellence…by its own reckoning…it has unrelentingly sought to subsume every other form of rule to a nether zone of irrelevance. As its ideological logic continues to spread across the globe, it does so by creating organelles of the Doctor Strangelove kind to kill off competitors vying for a percentage of the global marketplace. The better known ones are, Economic Sanctions, False Flag Operations, Extrajudicial Killings, Government Destabilisation, Siege Warfare, crucifixion of non-white people and many other forms of flesh-shredding instrumentalities that have found their way into the Western toolbox.

But with the passing of time, we have come to understand how adept Corporate American Democracy Inc. has become in creating false-flag single issues of the anodyne kind in its quest to undermine the sovereignty of its neighbours. Examples that springs to mind are Russia Nationalism, State Capitalism and Confucianism in Communist China, plus the Religious component in the Iranian system of governance. In general, Anglo-American-Zionism has little tolerance for cultures in possession of unifying doctrines capable of underpinning the genesis of their unipolar cultures…which is why Corporate Capitalism frequently bombs the shit out of them.

Which brings us back to fifth columnists like George Soros, the archetypal Zionist anti-assimilationist, and what Alex Christoforou had to say about him;

“Leaked Memo Show how George Soros planned to overthrow Vladimir Putin and destabilise Russia”.

“The recent DC Leaks of over 2,500 documents from George Soros NGOs, has shed a bright light on how the billionaire used his vast wealth to create global chaos in a never-ending push to deliver his neo-liberal euphoria to the peasant classes.

While Soros has managed to thoroughly destabilise The European Union by promoting mass immigration and open borders, divided the United States by funding Black Lives Matter and corrupting the very corruptible US political class, and destroyed Ukraine by pushing for an illegal coup of a democratically elected government using neo-Nazi strong men…one country that Soros has not been able to crack has been The Russian Federation”.

One man’s meat is another man’ poison it would seem. Observing the parvenus of fake literacy pushing the Washington-Zionist Consensus across the globe is to witness an Empire in decline. It has acquired all the hallmarks of a society at war with itself. The view from the looking-glass suggests that the vitriolic blowback from within the greed-worn US of A may require the removal of the appellation ‘U’ from the ‘S of A’. At which point, a cross-gender ‘witchcraft craze’ may devour America’s fairest and foulest with a repeat of the Salem Witch Trials (Europe 1300 to 1600), leading to thousands of supposed witches…mostly women…being executed. If blowback is in the offing, expect the casualties to be in the millions this time?

It appears that American media in conjunction with government sanctioned controls relating to ‘kosher’ versus fake news, have successfully manufactured a caulking product that cocoons the native imagination…or lack of…in a narrative that is restrained by the octopus embrace of the billionaire class. The front line being the power to project single issues as the modus operandi of democracy, a multifarious system that leaves the question of helmsman-ship open to ever more privatization.

The joie de vivre that may have existed in the US of A of yore, is no more. It has been replaced by acrimonious duopoly-narcosis infighting concerning which side of the duopoly can run the surveillance state that Corporate America has become. As execrable inequality continues to eat into the American dream, more and more Americans have come to realize that the system is stacked against them. They suspect that there is some awful presence in their midst, but don’t quite know what it is. They suspect that some unnameable force has corrupted the social aspect of the State but remain mystified as to how a socialised state might ward off the predations of Corporate Capitalism.

The idea that the State could be the vector that unified all single-issues is incompatible in a culture that venerated private property and celebratory status as an end to itself. When China’s successes in harnessing capitalism’s potential in ways that worked for the unity of the entire system began to show positive results, alarm bells began ringing in the US of A. It was at this point that the capitalist media swung into action, employing the best bullshit its epistemological dirty dancers could muster to accuse China of bad faith, evil intent, colonial skulduggery, and just about every single issue it could come up with to detract from the obviously very successful New Silk Roads enterprise.

The reason that the New Silk Roads ventures were embraced by so many African nations were that the terms of trade and borrowing were generally more attractive that anything Western banks could match. Besides, Chinese diplomacy and comity were palliatives accompanying the magic of the silky yuan making its way into a greatly underdeveloped dark continent. Silk, gold and the yuan had arrived in time to add a little hope for Africans endeavouring to develop their resourceful habitats.

According to China’s Chamber of International commerce, over 3,000 Chinese companies have invested Africa-wide in telecommunications, transportation, power generation, industrial parks, water supply, rental business for construction machinery, retail, schools, hotels and hospitals.

At the Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, President Xi Jinping announced a significant US $60 billion package to compliment another US $60 billion pledged at the 2015 summit.

That breaks down to $15 billion in grants and interest-free loans; $20 billion in credit lines; a $10 billion fund for development financing; $5 billion to finance imports from Africa; and waiving the debt of the poorest African nations diplomatically linked to China.

We in the Anglo-Zionist marketplace have lost sight of what comity might mean in the context of trade. As colonists and war-mongers we have come to accept violence and deception as the norm. We have also come to accept one set of rules for those on the outside of society, and another set of rules for those on the inside…or for those yet deeper within…the Deep State mandarins who manipulate us.

On any given day, there is $41.1 trillion in a self-invested network of interlocking capital that spans the globe and is managed by the mandarins of global capitalism operating outside our purview, to provide the ideological justifications for their shared interests (promulgated through their corporate media), that entails formulating agendas that have little, if any, concerns about human values or matters pertaining to the health of the planet. They are there as policy elites who seek the continued growth of capital in the world and to serve a unifying function…but for whom?

The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, G20, G7, World Trade Organization (WTO), World Economic Forum (WEF), Trilateral commission, Bilderberg Group, Bank of International Settlements, Group of 30 (G30), the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Monetary Conference serve as institutional mechanisms for consensus building within the transnational class, who in turn, exist as states within states, where they enjoy the collective status of fifth columnists, quietly and covertly accumulating assets per means of neo-conservative privatisation.

For evidence of this, we need only look back and observe how deep-state interests skewed interpretations of historic fact to justify their own existential playbook. The phrase “axis of evil” was first used by US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002 and often repeated through his presidency, to describe foreign governments that, during his administration, sponsored terrorism and sought weapons of mass destruction. The phrase attributed to former speechwriter David Frum, originally as the axis of hatred and then evil. Frum explained the rational for creating the phrase “axis of evil” in his book, “The Right Man. The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”.

With hindsight, we see how the consolidation of America’s Deep State came into being. The war on the Muslim World was let rip because it had the blessing of AIPAC, The New York Times and a host of fellow travellers who successfully maneuvered their mandarins into positions of power, deep inside the heart of the Republic. In effect, Zionism created a new ‘Vatican’ in the US of A, becoming an eminence grise by slithering its way into the heart of the Republic. In so doing, it adopted the mantle and status of alter ego for the punch-drunk Republic and employed institutions like the New York Times to tabulate a language of deception.

Dipping even deeper into the archives of ‘hindsight’, we are now able to tabulate…thus interpret…the many actions of ‘The Coalition of The Willing’ as being nothing more that an unconscionable jamboree of disinformation designed to intimate the Muslim World, and ultimately, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea…countries that were seen as obstacles that stood in the way of the Anglo-American-Zionist “Project for the New American Century”…compliments of William Kristol and Robert Kagan.

PNAC’s stated goal was “to promote American Global Leadership”. This organization stated that “American leadership is good for both America and for the world” and sought to build support for “a Reaganite” policy of military strength and moral clarity. What we observe in hindsight is totally unacceptable…the re-immergence of a Crusader mentality?

What The Washington Consensus achieved under the leadership of its alter ego (Zionism) was something entirely different; the destruction of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Palestine and other states occurred with absolute impunity. Worst of all, if current holocausts are brought out into the light of day as is the fashion of single-issues politics, they are quickly removed from centre stage scrutiny by the invisible hand that owns the franchise on victimology…and the price for saying that other holocausts are no less inferior to those under franchise, is to be branded an anti-…!!

“All the world’s a stage”, declared the Bard of Avon. But think again; the acrimonious garbage that spews from the mouths of Western governments and their media show us that something quite uniquely different is happening on the world stage that no bard could explain. The evidence is now before us, language and truth are in freefall, and we may just have to wait until some unknown force comes to our rescue, to purge the toxic swamp that obscures our vision of that “All the World’s a Stage” perspective, the one that contains the seeds that are needed to grow a unified unity.

Everybody understands the importance of the dollar system as the Achilles heel for the US empire yet oddly, when analysing imperial action of Warshington of the last decades, the focus is usually on ideologies like Zionism or American exceptionalism, or on at most partial aspects such as fossil fuels and pipelines. Another focus, favored mainly among Americans, is that America once was great but now has lost track somehow. I still think that the means of production, or in case of the US selling dollar annotated debt masked as investment, is far more paramount for US decision-making than ideology or oil, and that America hadn’t lost track but instead desperately tries to hold on to its track.

First, a few words about America’s track. The imperialists of the US regime desperately cling to their empire, that’s a classic, that’s what imperialists do. The Nazis clung to their short-lived empire until Germany was in ruins, the Romans clung to theirs until defeated, and the British struggle during WW2 was far more about preserving theirsthan it was about defeating Nazi Germany. Empires usually don’t dismantle themselves. But it’s also the American people, serfs to the empire, who are desperately clinging. That’s what I found so appalling about the Occupy movement. These millennial brats had no political agenda but to demand their cheap flat screens back from the banksters. They didn’t want change, they wanted continuity. The same is true for the so-called “alt-right” movement who have zero political agenda for a better future. They lament the present while dreaming of a past 1950s/1960s America that has never even really existed. When they say America has lost its track, they might have Middle Eastern wars in mind, but that’s rubbish because there is nothing new or different in these wars than in any wars Warshington had fought before against the Natives, their own Southern brethren, Mexico, Spain, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, you name it, and the meddling on Maidan is in no way different to what they’ve been doing in Latin American countries since the mid 19th century. Psychologically, I think, what they mourn is that the mask has fallen off and that they cannot go back to that cozy, simple, and ignorant lifestyle they had been able to enjoy up until 9/11.

To me the US empire is an historic aberration of humanity. With its genesis, its unparalleled level of violence, the categorically insolidary and segregated society and surreal consumer culture it has created, and the delusional ideology and mythology with which it justifies itself based on a borderline psychotic Messiah complex (Manifest Destiny), it represents an exceptional oddity among nations. But beyond its mental problems there is a cold, hard fact – at least within the realm of capitalism – that explains the actions and reactions of US imperialism throughout the years, especially in recent decades. It is both fuel and failure of the empire: the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, or rather the system behind it which consists of masquerading and selling debt as investment.

Continue reading after the page break

]]>Times Are A Changing in German Media?http://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/world-news/german-media/
Fri, 11 May 2018 15:06:01 +0000http://ooduarere.com/?p=91660

By Sergio Weigel

In Germany the most powerful political force is the media which has been chasing politicians to make the policy their masters, “neoliberal” think tanks, bank and industry lobbies and Atlanticist think tanks aka Warshington, wanted. But German state media had recently cracked open the narrative.

Something strange has happened in German media. After years of streamlined and very constrained news coverage of the Syrian war with the clear goal to form public opinion in the sense of Warshington, German state media suddenly cracked open the narrative regarding the alleged gas attacks in Douma. On the Skripal case they were still in full lockstep with the Anglo-American narrative. However, when the White Helmets staged a chlorine gas attack in Douma shortly after, at least some state media didn’t march in lockstep. Instead, news anchors used careful phrases like “alleged gas attack” or “possible gas attack”. I noticed it immediately and it raised my eyebrows. That’s unusual, I thought. Every stupid helmet lie before was just repeated as fact, yet this time they seemed more cautious. Then the unthinkable happened. A “Western” journalist, Uli Gack from ZDF, actually went down there to Damascus to visit a refugee camp and ask the locals about what happened. This was then broadcast on the daily news show heute journal (today’s journal). See for yourself:

﻿

Of course, he was immediately attacked by our Atlanticist print media, namely by Germany’s chief mudslinging tabloid Bild and Focus, a minor magazine that is usually found in doctors’ waiting rooms and read by people who don’t fancy magazines about furniture. He was labeled a “conspiracy theorist” who “spreads Assad’s and Putin’s propaganda”, who either “has no clue” or “lies deliberately”, the usual kindergarten. Unfortunately, the ZDF didn’t stood up for him but instead distanced itself. So, in a second report which was broadcasted two days after, in which he visited the same hospital Russian soldiers had previously searched for victims, he made or had to made it sound like the witnesses were selected for him by the Assad regime. This is what we call Bringschuld in German, duty to deliver, and it was as obvious as cake that he has been made to say it. Nonetheless, he’s done it, he interviewed victims at site and presented the results. Someone at the ZDF must have told him to, because Mr. Gack is not exactly known as an honest, impartial journalist, I doubt it was his idea. It’s sad that the cowards at the ZDF caved before the tabloids, but it was remarkable nonetheless. After all, ZDF is Germany’s largest TV station and heute journal is the second most important daily news show.

Phoenix is a channel in collaboration of ARD and ZDF. It was founded originally for live broadcasts of debates in Bundestag, you know, to promote the impression of transparency to the citizens. Now, they also have mostly great documentaries and this particular political talk, of which I want to give an example, called phoenix round. Phoenix is not the ZDF, but it is viewed by a respectable number of people, usually around four million per day, who prefer television that feeds the head instead of numbing the mind. This is the first time ever that I saw a political talk on German TV where a guest is allowed to give a full summary on the genesis of the Syrian conflict, claim that all chemical attacks have been false flags and make his argument about it, that Russia has a clear strategy and will determine the endgame, and that the US has lost the quagmire in Syria and Iraq. Watch it, it’s 46 minutes long, and I’ve tried my best to make the subtitles as understandable as possible, especially in heated moments of the discussion. It’s from April 12, so they’re discussing Trump’s tweet and what he’s gonna do now.

﻿

These are singular incidents, but they are remarkable. Anglo-America’s propaganda and false flag pets in Syria, the White Helmets, report a poison gas attack by the Syrian air force and Germany’s largest TV station sends a veteran journalist down to Damascus to interview witnesses of the incident after four years of dutiful propaganda service. In a political talk show two guests are allowed to explain how the war really came about and what the reality on the ground really looks like, even declare, including the host of the show, that the US has lost the war! This is remarkable because it happened on state TV. To understand why that matters let me explain how German media is structured in general.

The German mainstream media landscape consists of mainly three areas. Private TV and radio, state TV and radio, and the print media. Private media brings the typical mind numbing and spirit crushing entertainment as a vehicle to sell advertisements.

State media, TV and radio, called öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk (public-legal broadcast) has been created after the war modelled after the BBC. It is funded by a compulsory levy. Regardless of whether you even have a TV/radio or not, every household is forced by law to pay a monthly fee of €17.50. It pays for several broadcasting services, one for almost every Bundesland, integrated in the “first channel”, the ARD, but they also have their own channels. Then we have the ZDF, the “second channel”, which is also the largest TV station in Germany, plus several smaller collaborative channels, such as Arte, a collaboration with French public TV in the spirit of cultural exchange.

These channels have the legal assignment to educate and inform, and in many ways they actually do. They have plenty of interesting documentaries on various stuff, and also sometimes by far the better films (European cinema), but when it comes to information things become complicated. There is a legal precept of distance from government. They’re supposed to be independent. However, the intendants are usually active party members of either CDU (ZDF) or SPD (ARD), so of government parties. There have been several lawsuits at our Verfassungsgericht (supreme court) over this – without success.

Also, there are issues with how the funds are used which have also been trialed at the Verfassungsgericht. For example, most political talk shows are run by women, coincidentally I guess, and named after them, such as Maybrit Illner or Anne Will. The shows aren’t produced by the broadcasters themselves but by private companies for ridiculously high prices they could never achieve on the free market. Now guess who the main shareholders of these companies are? You guessed right, it is the respective host of the show. This makes them corruptible, of course, since to get paid so well in the future they will have to follow a certain line, most likely determined by the party member intendants, but maybe also by Atlanticist interference. Their guestlist is usually crammed with members of the infamous Atlantikbrücke.

The real dangerous media in Germany, however, the one that can undermine state authority by manipulation of public opinion is the print media. Bild, Spiegel, Zeit, FAZ, Süddeutsche, welt, and taz are the most important. In the 80s each each one represented a certain political group or party and/or social class. However, this started to erode in the 90s when the former left couldn’t handle the fall of socialism and substituted its original ideals with liberal petty nonsense like gender ideology and adapted liberal globalism as inevitable. Today they are completely streamlined and all the same: Atlanticist. It is as if Goebbels had returned from his grave with an Uncle Sam hat. All editors-in-chief of these rags are members of at least one of the notorious Atlanticist organisations, camouflaged as intercultural and intellectual dialog platforms yet essentially run by the CIA: Atlantikbrücke, German Marshall Fund, Aspen Institute etc. We know this from late whistleblower Udo Ulfkotte, and from the brilliant satire team Die Anstalt who made these things known to a broader public.

The problem with these rags is that they still enjoy tons of trust with certain age and social groups. Take baby boomers with a higher education, for example. They trust rags like FAZ or Zeit which still enjoy an intellectual reputation. It’s true, both boast a thick feuilleton. If you want to know about theater, opera, literature in Germany and elsewhere, FAZ and Zeit are the way to go. Since reputable baby boomers enjoy to cultivate their sophistication, these are their newspapers. And why should the articles about world politics be less sophisticated than the feuilleton? So they mistake warmongering and lies about Russia with quality journalism.

However, the real danger from print media comes from their ability and habit to witch hunt politicians and shame celebrities who fall out of line. They’ve managed to force former German presidents Horst Köhler and Christian Wulff to reign, because they expressed some inconvenient truths (the Bundeswehr is in Afghanistan not to help but for economic interests) or views (Islam belongs to Germany – at a time when Muslims were still the enemy). Also Germany’s most famous soul singer Xavier Naidoo fell victim to an absolute hate campaign, because he had openly stated that Germany is not a sovereign country. This is (supposed to be) a taboo, and even though it’s true, you’ll be shamed as a Nazi by usual suspects. With ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder they had played a more subliminal game and ran a successful campaign to have him voted out of office and Angela Merkel into office, because was the first to say nein to Warshington’s aggression against Iraq.

So why did state media suddenly cracked open the narrative on such a huge case like an alleged poison attack by Assad the monster? And why at this point in time? I don’t think this is going to be a constant change in reporting on German TV, at least not yet, but I a believe it might have had to do with Angela Merkel’s visit to Warshington. Germany is not just a vassal like France and certainly not a whore like Poland, the German-American relationship is much more complicated. However, by bilateral contracts with the US and even by the 2+4 contract Germany still is, in many ways, an occupied country. The US military and even more so it’s “intelligence” has rights that go beyond our constitution. I will write about this in more detail, but for now it is enough to understand that the German government cannot make official statements as easily as the governments of a sovereign country like Russia or even France can. If a politician does it, he or she will be ousted by the print media as described above. Therefore, the German government every once in a while sends a message this way. In this case it was a warning: Look, we could unleash the truth on our public. Germany has many ways to pressure countries in the EU politically, but next to none to pressure Warshington without risking an open conflict.

At least, during her visit Merkel managed, in her unparalleled Teflon style, to shrug off all of Trump’s ridiculous demands. But more of that later.

Sergio’s Bio: Born to a Portuguese mother and a German father Sergio was raised in Northern Germany, just two kilometers away from a British-German NATO air base. The daily sonic boom and thunder of low altitude Tornados was the sound of his childhood. They years when NATO wanted to station Pershing-2 missiles with nuclear warheads at the air base, were formative for him and he can still vividly remember the Cold War, Reagan, Thatcher, Chernobyl, the claustrophobic atmosphere, and the relief when the Berlin Wall finally fell. He makes his living as a web-programmer and IT consultant but still avidly studies studies history, geopolitics, economic theories, monetary theory, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and music.

We, the leaders of France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom, abhor the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, UK, on 4 March 2018. A British police officer who was also exposed in the attack remains seriously ill, and the lives of many innocent British citizens have been threatened. We express our sympathies to them all, and our admiration for the UK police and emergency services for their courageous response. This use of a military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War. It is an assault on UK sovereignty and any such use by a State party is a clear violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and a breach of international law. It threatens the security of us all. The United Kingdom briefed thoroughly its allies that it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for the attack. We share the UK assessment that there is no plausible alternative explanation, and note that Russia´s failure to address the legitimate request by the UK government further underlines its responsibility. We call on Russia to address all questions related to the attack in Salisbury. Russia should in particular provide full and complete disclosure of the Novichok programme to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Our concerns are also heightened against the background of a pattern of earlier irresponsible Russian behaviour. We call on Russia to live up to its responsibilities as a member of the UN Security Council to uphold international peace and security.

German Federal Returning Officer said that the German conservative CDU/CSU bloc won German parliamentary election receiving 33 percent.

The German conservative bloc, made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), wins German parliamentary election receiving 33 percent, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) follows with 20.5 percent after 100 percent of votes counted in all 299 districts, the Federal Returning Officer said Monday.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party enters the parliament for the first time ranking third with 12.6 percent. Among other parties who also overcame a 5-percent threshold are the Free Democratic Party (FDP) with 10.7 percent, the Left Party with 9.2 percent and the Green Party with 8.9 percent.

The 19th Bundestag will be composed of 709 seats, the Federal Returning Officer said Monday. The new composition of the Bundestag will be increased by 78 seats, compared to the previous one, due to the enhanced position of the minor parties. The CDU/CSU receives 246 seats (instead of 311), SPD gets 153 (instead of 193). AfD enters the parliament with 94 mandates, FDP has 80 seats, the Left Party increases its presence up to 69 seats (instead of 64) and the Green Party up to 67 (instead of 63).

The total voter turnout in the German parliamentary election stands at 76.2%, this is a nearly 5-percent increase from the previous 2013 election, when the turnout stood at 71.5 percent.

Following the results, Merkel faces a task to form a coalition, which will be particularly challenging because of the right-wing AfD’s surging into Bundestag, following the failure to win any seats in the previous 2013 election.

Merkel also called the results of exit polls, showing that AfD party is likely to enter the German parliament, “a great challenge” and vowed to fight for the votes of AfD supporters.

On Sunday, the Parliament elections were held in Germany. More than 88,000 polling stations opened across the country. About 61.5 million voters were expected to cast ballots, choosing among six major parties

]]>Germany gives Nigeria ₦16bn to resettle B’Haram victimshttp://ooduarere.com/naija-gist/foreign/germany-gives-nigeria/
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:03:46 +0000http://ooduarere.com/?p=77458A €47.6m ( about N16.23bn) commitment has been announced by the German government as financial support to Nigeria for technical cooperation programmes and special project initiatives, Punchng reports.

The Leader of a German delegation, Mrs. Renate von Boddien, revealed this, yesterday, during a meeting of the Nigeria-Germany Consultations on Development Cooperation, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning.
Boddien disclosed that the commitment was part of bilateral technical cooperation and special project initiative aimed at tackling the root causes of displacement of refugees and speed up their integration under the ‘One World No Hunger Green Innovation’.

]]>German Mayor Confirms Blast Killing 1, Injuring 11 was a Terror Attackhttp://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/world-news/german-mayor-confirms-blast-killing-1-injuring-11-was-a-terror-attack/
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:35:04 +0000http://ooduarere.com/?p=73624Mayor of German city of Ansbach Karda Seidel said that the cause of the explosion in the city center was an explosive device. “This is not a gas explosion, it was caused by a bomb,” said Seidel.

A bomb attack in the downtown area of the German City of Ansbach killing 1 and wounding 11 was not the result of a gas leak, but was in fact a terror attack. The parties responsible for the bombing and their motivations remain undetermined at this time.

The attack occurred near a wine restaurant in the downtown quarter right before the Ansbach Open, a three-day music festival that attracts many visitors. The organizers were forced to cancel the concert following the attack with around 2,500 visitors leaving the venue. Hotels and houses surrounding the bomb blast were also evacuated for safety.

MORE TO COME.

]]>Refugee hacks pregnant woman to death in In Germanyhttp://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/world-news/refugee-hacks-pregnant/
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:27:02 +0000http://ooduarere.com/?p=73621In Germany, refugee hacks pregnant woman to death, injures two others before a driver runs him over

A 21-year-old Syrian refugee wielding a machete has killed a pregnant woman and injured a man and another woman in Reutlingen, Germany before being arrested by police after he was run over by a man driving a BMW. .

Police spokesman Bjoern Reusch said that witnesses said the man, who was known to police, was having an argument with the woman, before attacking her. They also added that the incident ‘did not bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.’ According to the information available, he acted alone, as he had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people.

]]>Shots Fired in Munich Shopping Center, 6 people reportedly killed – Videohttp://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/world-news/shots-fired-in-munich-shopping-center-6-people-reportedly-killed-video/
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:43:00 +0000http://ooduarere.com/?p=73494At least six people have been killed in a mall shooting in the city of Munich, Germany, in what police have confirmed to be a terrorist attack.

The shooting took place at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany. Police have confirmed at least six deaths and multiple people are injured. There are reportedly three gunman who are currently on the run. One of the gunman has committed suicide, according to German newspaper Bilde.

There are also reports of shooting at a second location. Germany TV channel ARD reports that the city’s main train station is being evacuated at this time. The public transport agency reports that all subways, buses, and trams in the city have been suspended for the time being.

A state of emergency has been declared in Munich, with special operations underway. The anti-terror special unit of the federal police has been deployed to the city. Border patrol helicopters have also been rerouted to join in the manhunt.

German police have warned that the suspects are still on the run and have advised citizens to avoid public areas. According to Bavarian broadcaster BR, police are also asking people to avoid highways near the city.

An axe-wielding 17-year-old Afghan refugee attacked passengers on a train in Wurzburg, Germany last night, leaving 3 seriously injured, in what was described by officials as a “probable” Islamist attack. Police shot him dead as he attempted to flee the scene. .

“It is quite probable that this was an Islamist attack,” said a ministry spokesman, adding that the attacker had apparently shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) as he stabbed people. .

3 people were seriously injured, 14 people were left in shock, and one other person suffered minor injuries. The the assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany and had lived at first in a shelter and then more recently with a foster family in nearby Ochsenfurt.